Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Techniques

                         

 

Integrated Pest management (IPM) is collection of ecosystem-based strategies that focuses on long-term management of pests at certain level. Hence in IPM we use the smart combination of techniques such as physical control, habitat change, modification of cultural practices, and use of green pesticide and traps.

Many techniques keep pest populations at certain level and avoids risk of resistance strains. Non-toxic effective pest management methods are used before toxic pesticide strategies. Various IPM techniques are used in combination to a very smart way to avail sustainable pest control results.

Cultural Control:

Reduce the pest infestation by reducing the conditions they lived upon for instance water, food and shelter. Furthermore, suppress pest problems by minimizing the conditions they need to live (water, shelter, food). Cleaning the home and offices also reduce the risk of any pest outbreak. Keep the dry food in close container could also be segment of effective cultural control.

Physical methods:

The physical method could also term as exclusion on habitat modification. So, prevent the pest to get access to the host area and multiply. Moreover, using of traps, filling of holes and use of mechanical traps could effectively prevent rats population. Similarly, removing the infested mattress and bed frames as well as using the vacuum could avoid the bed bugs infestation. Use of traps could avoid cockroaches without using pesticide.

Chemical Management:

Selection of the chemical control is very important. Use the least toxic chemical and avoid the broad-spectrum pesticide. Prefer the local treatment instead of non-local one. For instance, If you want to control cockroaches in the kitchen then you can use the detergent only to deep clean the home and avoid the pesticide. Similarly, cockroaches’ gel is also a good safe chemical choice. If you want to go for pesticides, then contact the professional pest controller. Collectively, we should avoid toxic pesticide for our generations to come.

 

Merits of Adopting IPM Techniques.

• Acquire long lasting pest control results.
• Save non-targeted organisms.
• Reduce the hazard of toxicity.
• Break the resistance in the pest.
• Keep the population density at certain level.
• Save the money and time on pest control operations.
• Can easily shift from one control method to the other.
• Save the environment for the generations to come.

 

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